Number of cards with a payment function in the UK 2009-2019
debit cards (48 percent).
Over time, the development in the amount of payment cards issued out in the United Kingdom (from 2009 to 2019) generally rose. The number of issued cards with a payment function amounted to approximately 162.7 million in 2019. This was an increase of around 19 million payment cards than were issued in 2009. Around half of all payments in the United Kingdom in 2019 were done through